The Morbid Anatomy Library

Founded in 2008, The Morbid Anatomy Library is a research library and collection making available thousands of books, photographs, artworks, pieces of ephemera, and artifacts relating to medical museums, anatomical art, collectors and collecting, cabinets of curiosity, the history of medicine, death and society, natural history, arcane media, and curiosity and curiosities broadly considered. It originated as a project in residence at Proteus Gowanus, and was also on view at The Morbid Anatomy Museum from 2014 - 2016.

Today, The Morbid Anatomy Library can be visited from September 22 through December 2, 2018, Saturday and Sunday, 12 - 5 at Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery's Fort Hamilton Gatehouse. This iteration of the library is dedicated to our beloved friend Mel Gordon(1947 - 2018); Trickster, rogue scholar of the obscure and the maligned, and an inspiration without whom Morbid Anatomy as it is today would not exist. He is very much missed.

The Fort Hamilton Gatehouse is right inside the Fort Hamilton gate, located at Fort Hamilton Parkway and Micieli Place, easily accessible on the F and G trains at Fort Hamilton Station or Church Street Station. If arriving at the main entrance (25th Street and 5th Avenue) the Gate House is approximately a 25 minute walk through the Cemetery. The exhibition is not handicap accessible.